Connecting for Health seeks NHS volunteers

25th August 2005

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health agency delivering the National Programme for Information Technology, is looking for experienced NHS clinicians to travel to India and the US for several weeks to advise software developers on the workings of the NHS.

The deployment of experienced NHS clinicians and practitioners to Seattle and Hyderabad on a rotational basis will help inform software development and defect resolution and speed up information flows back to CfH

CfH would like to deploy personnel as quickly as possible, but recognises that volunteers will need to make appropriate arrangements to cater for their current positions.

A typical commitment might require the volunteer to spend a minimum of two weeks in either of the locations and then return to either the same or a different location and development area for a second similar period two or three months later.

CfH anticipates that NHS volunteers will be working with the relevant subcontractor for their cluster. Because of this, it would be sensible for volunteers from the Eastern, North Eastern and North West and West Midlands clusters to work with iSoft in Hyderabad and volunteers from the London cluster to work with IDX in Seattle. However, CfH says it will accommodate the individual location preferences of any NHS volunteers.

Contact Tony Burke, Programme Director, NHS CfH: tel: 0113 280 6492